A painful feeling of unrequited love, typically for a former lover and causing unbalanced or violent behaviour.
Example sentencesExamples
- Where capricious behaviour consistent with tabanca is most evident is in his unsupported opinion of what African-Trinidadian children do at school.
- It has killed its credibility because of its ‘tabanca’ for office and its penchant for mischief.
- What price is our venerable former Prime Minister prepared to have us pay to assuage the agony of his political tabanca?
- Most adults are aware of what a man with a serious tabanca can do.